Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 04 Oct 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, October 4, 2000

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Convener

Following the resignation of Roseanna Cunningham, item 1 on this morning's agenda is the choice of a new convener. We are obliged to choose a member of the Scottish National Party, and willingly do so. I await nominations from SNP members with bated breath.

You need bate your breath no longer, convener. I nominate Alasdair Morgan.

May I confirm formally Alasdair Morgan's willingness to accept the position?

I accept.

I therefore ask the committee to give its agreement to Alasdair Morgan becoming our convener.

Alasdair Morgan was chosen as convener.

I hand over the chair to Alasdair Morgan. I welcome him and hope that he will enjoy his position. This is a good committee. We have enjoyed it and I hope that he will enjoy working with us. I will take my wee name tag and go.

Thank you, Gordon. I know that my selection owes more to the d'Hondt formula than to any talent that I have shown so far, but I thank the committee for choosing me none the less.

I apologise for the cramped circumstances in which we are meeting, especially given the number of witnesses, some of whom are waiting downstairs and watching us on a monitor.

We will move to item 2 on the agenda, which is to agree that at our next meeting, we will consider our draft report on the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill in private. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.